Anyone vs Whosoever - What's the difference?
anyone | whosoever |
Any person; anybody.
* (George Bernard Shaw)
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=8
, passage= “[…] Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. […] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then—then he smashed one after another, until I got windy—nervous as you might say. […]”}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= whichever person; whoever
* 1597 — v 3
* 1611 — 6:47
*:"Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like"
* 18?? — , source?
As pronouns the difference between anyone and whosoever
is that anyone is any person; anybody while whosoever is whichever person; whoever.anyone
English
Alternative forms
* any onePronoun
(English Pronouns)- The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Goodchild
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
Synonyms
* anybodywhosoever
English
Pronoun
(en-pron)- If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,
More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.
- This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.